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1 PROCESS OF AND DIE FOR MAKING PILL BOXES.

% No. 259,365. Patented June 13, 1882.

wi messes lYmefl'zmy Nrran STATES PIERRE OAUHAPE, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO FAKE, DAVIS 86 00., OF SAME PLACE.

PROCESS OF AND DIE FOR MAKING PILL-BOXES.-

SPEOIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,365, dated June 13, 1882.

Application filed March 18, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PIERRE CAUHAPE, Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Process of and Dies for Making Pill-Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in a process of and dies for making pill packing-boxes; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the dies and the 1 manner of using them, as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective bottom View of the die employed to form cells, and Fig. 2 is a similar View of a modified form of die for forming long cells or channels.

A represents a plate preferably of metal, from the bottom of which project several series of cubes, a, (see Fig. 1,) having rounded corners at their free ends. These cubes are arranged in rows with a distance between each equal to the thickness of the division or cell walls it is desired to form.

In Fig. 2 parallel rows of ribs 1) are used, instead of the cubes, for the purpose of forming 0 long channels.

Projecting feet 0 are provided at the corners of the die, for the purpose hereinafter described.

The method of using these dies is as follows: A shallow box ofthe proper depth and size is filled to the desired height with heated gelatinous matter, which may consist of gelatine mixed with glycerine or some equivalent substance which will keep the gelatine from becoming hard and brittle. The die, which has 0 been previously slightly oiled, is then pressed into the box until its feet 0 rest on the bottom (Model.)

thereof, thus causing the liquid gelatinous matter to rise between the cubes or ribs of the die and form division-walls for each cell made by the die, and also forming a thin film at the 5 bottom and sides of the box.

When the gelatinous matter has solidified sufficiently to allow it to retain its form permanently the die is withdrawn and used for forming the filling of another box.

The gelatinous matter should be so made that it will remain permanently of sufficient rigidity to retain its form, and yet be of sufficient softness to prevent abrasion of pills or capsules which it is designed to contain.

In this application I make no claim to the box filled, as described, as the box proper forms the subject-matter of a previous and allowed application, No. 53,384.

I am aware that dies have heretofore been used to form cells in wax to be used as afoundation for the cells of honey-combs, and I do not desire to claim such invention, which, as will readily be seen, is not formed into boxes and is entirely different from my invention.

What I claim is- Y 1. The process herein described of forming thedivision-walls ofchambers or cells of gelatinous matter in boxes by means of dies pressed into said gelatinous matter while in a soft condition, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with dies, substantially as described, of the feet 0, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The plate A, provided with a series of dies or formers having rounded corners and with feet 0, substantially as and for the pur pose specified.

PIERRE OAUHAPE. Witnesses:

H. A. WETZEL, HENRY M. FERRY. 

